Essential safety criteria for ship close coupled towing by an icebreaker
Abstract
Сlose coupled towing is a very difficult marine operation. Insufficient attention to the issue of safety may lead to the temporary lay-up of the ship, financial losses, as well as serious logistical failures along the Northern Sea Route. The purpose of this study is to develop a unified approach to assessing the suitability of a ship for сlose coupled towing. The emphasis in the work is on ships in operation, the key problems of which are the limited time for any engineering studies, and also, often, the incompleteness of the initial data. As a result, the main safety criteria have been formulated, the verification of which, within the framework of a preliminary engineering analysis, will help shortly draw a reasonable conclusion about the suitability of the ship for сlose coupled towing or give appropriate recommendations for its modernization.
About the Authors
A. A. Petrov
JSC CNIIMF
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
PhD
St. Petersbur
C. G. Arutyunyan
FSBI NSR General Administration
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Murmansk
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For citations:
Petrov A.A., Arutyunyan C.G. Essential safety criteria for ship close coupled towing by an icebreaker. Research Bulletin by Russian Maritime Register of Shipping. 2023;(70/71):81-87. (In Russ.)
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